Atherwood Elementary School (Simi Valley)

T...I say T-R...T-R-A...T-R-A-S...T-R-A-S-H (eee rrrr) W-double oh-D!

Or...

Feelin' bad 'bout Trasherwood!
Years of hating keep rotating.
Ev'ry fall, shrinking small!
Through my beers at Trasherwood!

What ever happened to the gaudy American flag made out of students' handprints that was painted on the side of the library? My hand was on there...

Hey, Crazy - remember this one?

I see babies cry, I watch them throw
Up all over the walls, and down it goes
And I think to myself
What a blunderful world...

(No defamation meant towards Louis Armstrong, whose music I love dearly.)

I miss smelly Flutophones; the lumpy, misshapen handball that GATE kids always got studk with at recess; picking up the filthy gray volleyballs that kids used for socco when they flew over the balance beam and down to the spider/jungle gym thing and drop-kicking them over the fence so the yard snooties would have to retrieve them; volunteering to help in the library so I could get out of math; and Twister in a certain teacher's classroom on rainy days.